Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3, sentence 29
Then Chief Okim told his son Ode that he was to be his sister’s attendant while she was kept in the house, and that he was to look after the goat.
Who acts: Chief · What happens: tell, be, keep · To what, where: son Ode, attendant, Ode, house · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chief), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 told | advmod |
| 2 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj |
| 3 | Okim | Okim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Chief | flat |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 Ode | nmod:poss |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Ode | compound |
| 7 | Ode | ode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | iobj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 attendant | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 attendant | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 attendant | cop |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 be | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 attendant | cop |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sister | nmod:poss |
| 14 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 attendant | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 sister | case |
| 16 | attendant | attendant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | ccomp |
| 17 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 kept | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 kept | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 kept | aux:pass |
| 20 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 told | ccomp |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 house | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 house | det |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 kept | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 look | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 look | cc |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 look | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 look | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 look | cop |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 look | mark |
| 30 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 told | conj |
| 31 | after | after | ADP | _ | 33 goat | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 goat | det |
| 33 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 look | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Chief | chief's son Ode | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent ode=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | is a | past | chief | chief's sister's attendant | chief's sister nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | keep | past · passive | Ode | the house | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in house=Location | ||||
| 4 | is | past | chief | after the goat | look property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Project Gutenberg book 70959 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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